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Re: Virtual Tour with Audio on a Hand Held device

Pete - I can tell you right now the Plam T/X will not be suitable for your needs.

I just purchased one last week.

I used it with the Kinoma player.

Actually, the VR's did not look that bad.  But even after optimizing them for the handheld, there was some bit of jitter during panning.

While you can use the button controls for zooming in and out, you MUST use the stylus for panning (there might have been a nav panel to use with the Kinoma player - but that requires exiting "full screen" mode).

I found the stylus very tricky to use on this device.  If you did not put stylus to screen at the right angle and pressure, it would leave ugly "track marks" - as it it were trying to write something into the screen.  This would temporarily freeze the pano and set the screen to  black - until one of the buttons were pressed or the stylus successfully "connected" with the player.

This is not a problem with the Kinoma player but, I believe, the Plam T/X itself.  This type of stylus behavior was happening in other apps too.  I had a Tungsten T1 awhile back and nothing like this with the stylus ever happened on that device.

I wound up returning the Palm T/X.  Not so much for the way it played VR's via Kinoma (I felt that was adequately enough)  but because I didn't like the way it handled any other media (PDF's were especially difficult to read and navigate).

Another thing to consider is that I found the viewing angle very limited with the Plam T/X.  So if you were demonstrating a pano to someone, you would need to make sure they were directly in front of the screen or else the pano would appear washed out and dull.  Maintaining the right screen position to show someone while panning with the flaky stylus is not the easiest thing to do (at least it wasn't for me).

I too would be very interested in learning more about how Aldo used the Sony PSP for panorama playback, and if it was some implementation of his Spi-V player. The PSP is cheap enough now where I would purchase it just for pano playback (as I'm not a gamer and have little interest in watching tiny videos).

I also tried PTViewerME but that did not work too well for me.  I might not have installed everything correctly, though I did follow all instructions.  Not only did the sample pano play very slowly, but it was the size of a postage stamp and I could not figure out how to make it go to full screen.


Hand Held device -
The client has used audio tours before, I expect you've all seen them
before.  They would like to upgrade this to a audio visual tour using our VR
photography.  I understand reading the other discussion that there are a few
possible solutions, the Palm TX sounds like it might be suitable. 



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